Sad Dars (One Hundred Lessons)

Sad Dars – The Method of Tanbur Playing by Master Ali Akbar Moradi is one of the most important and comprehensive teaching resources for the tanbur. It was written to teach tanbur playing systematically and to introduce the student to staff notation, to the maqams and to the traditional rhythms.

About the book
• Author: Ali Akbar Moradi
• Publisher: the author (self-published)
• Published: 1391 SH (2012)
• ISBN: 978-964-04-8510-1
• Format: large (rahli)
• With two audio CDs for listening to the lessons
• In Persian

Contents (as described by the author when the book came out, December 2012)
• One hundred lessons that take the student from the very beginning through about two years of tanbur study
• Ten different rhythms and metres
• About sixteen right-hand strokes (mezrab)
• At least forty tanbur maqams
• The lessons lead the student towards the music of the tanbur itself rather than towards other musical styles.